If you are blogging for even 2 months you must have seen this error once when you tried to add a javascript in you blog theme. This error appears when a javascript contains some symbols like $ or & or sometime =. All these errors show error when theme is saved. and the error says "Error parsing XML, line number, column number: The reference to entity "version" must end with the 'example' delimiter".
As shown in above image, blogger is not accepting Facebook like button code and showing error. To solve this error I have to simply make this code acceptable by blogger.
You might have problem saving codes of some ads like media.net ads, chitika ads, bidvertiser ads etc all these ads are sometimes not accepted by blogger so you can fix them by following this post and run ads or custom scripts.
How to add javascript codes in blogger without parsing error ?
Follow below steps:
(1). Grab the javascript code which you want to fix in to a notepad or paste it in your blog's <head> or elsewhere in your blog template.
(2). Copy below piece of Text / HTML tag.
//<![CDATA[
(3). Now paste it after <script>or <scripttype='text/javascript'> of your javascript code.
(4). Now find the closing tag of your script i.e <script>and paste below piece of HTML above it.
//]]>
(5). Save your theme.
You didn't see any error right ? if this worked for you feedback and share this post with others. If not share your problem by leaving a comment below.
Your final code should be like below:
<scripttype='text/javascript'> //<![CDATA[ function myFunction(){ var btn = document.createElement("Click"); window.open("URL") } //]]> </script>
Though it is a small error but I thought to share how to fix it because it is asked by many bloggers who encountered this error. Hope it helps!
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Google Analytics are tools powered by Google which are super good to analyze your site. It keeps all information about your site e.g where your visitors are coming from, what is the country of your visitor, How much time is your visitor spending on your site, What is the behavior of your visitor etc. So with the help of Google Analytics you can keep every info about your site or blog and use it to improve your earnings and to make your site or blog better. Why Should I Use Google Analytics?
The answer is simple and obvious, you can use Google Analytics to improve your site and earnings.
How can I increase my earnings using Google Analytics? Well, for example you have an interstitial ad which shows up after 10 seconds and overlays your content and you can see that your visitors are aware about your ad and they are smart :p and when the ad shows up they simply close it and use your site for free without paying you a cent then you can know with the help of Google Analytics that exactly how much time your visitors are spending on your site so for instance your visitor is spending 2 mins on your site or blog then you can show your ad after 20 sec or after 40 sec so your visitor won't understand when the ad is going to show up so you will get more clicks and hence your earnings will increase.
How to improve your blog or site using Google Analytics? Let me share another example to explain how can your improve your site and user experience with the help of Google Analytics. So for example you have a blog and you have installed a "Pop Up Page Take Over Follow Buttons" in your blog using Hellobar then you can set the perfect time for the pop up to show up in the due time and make a good user experience. Moreover you can also plan timings of slideout and Newsletter to show up when your visitor is on your site so with the help of Google Analytics you can manage your dynamic widgets and get benefit of them.
Step 2: Go to ADMIN in Google Analytics and select a property to get its analytics.
Step 3: Select Tracking Info > Tracking Code.
Step 4: Copy the Tracking ID or Website tracking code, its your choice you can copy the tracking ID or Website tracking code.
Step 5: Follow below steps if you have copied website tracking code or scroll below to add tracking ID in your blog.
How to add Google Analytics website tracking code in blogger?
Go to Blogger > Template > Edit HTML and search for </head>
Paste your copied code above it.
Save your template and you are done.
How to add Google Analytics website tracking ID in blogger?
Go to Blogger > Settings > Other > Google Analytics.
Paste your tracking ID.
Click on Save settings button on top right of the page and you are done.
That's it, you are done successfully. If you have any question ask me in comments or contact me.
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There is nothing new which I am going to tell you about blogging in this post. Its just a path for those who are new to blogging and in this post I will tell you how to start blogging, how to build audience, how to choose niche for your blog, how to get your blog on search engines, how to start earning and how to become a professional blogger. So we have following topics in this post.
Choosing a niche for your blog is actually the base on which your blog will stand. In case of any mistake you can't be a successful blogger. So before creating a blog you need to decide what you should blog about.
To choose a niche for your blog first you need to search what trending on internet or blog about what you know. For example if you know about how to make money online, start blogging about it. It will surely bring you a big audience. Furthermore if you know about cooking then you can start blogging about cooking and share your recipes with others.
Also if you know about programming you can start a blog about it. But the thing is you must know about the thing about which you are going to start blogging.
So the bottom line is start blogging about something you know or what is trending but first know about it.
2. What should I choose as blogging platform(Wordpress Or Blogger)
Before we judge whether we choose wordpress or blogger for blogging let me share features of both:
Features of blogger:
The first feature of blogger isoverviewwhere you can see latest updates of your blog such as comments, today page views, total posts, followers and a graph which shows your traffic stats.
The second one is post where you can see how many posts are in draft or published. You can edit them here.
After posts other option is comments which shows you how many comments you have approved to show and how many are spam.
The fourth is Google+ where you can manage where to share your updates whether on your on profile or any page you created on Google+.
After Google+ there is another option of stats which describes your blog's traffic briefly. It shows today's traffic, yesterday's traffic, Last month page views, all the time traffic, countries of visitors, the pages they have visited and traffic sources.
Other option is earnings, if you have a Google AdSense account your earnings will show up here.
A new feature is also added which is campaigns where you can create ads of your posts which will show up in Google searches. It is very easy way to increase your blog traffic but its worth.
After campaigns there is a layout option where you can change favicon of your blog, select a navigation bar, add description,title or image to header, edit blog posts settings and add or remove a gadget to your blog.
After layout there is Template option with which you can customize or edit your blog template and can choose another template for your blog.
After all options there is a last and very important option of settings which helps you to control posts and comments settings, basic settings, search preferences, language, time zone, date and other.
Features of Wordpress:
Build a blog, a full website, or a combo. Personal blog, portfolio, business site — it’s up to you.
Start free. Upgrade for advanced customizing or business tools. Or stay free!
Add a custom domain to carve out your own space on the web, and manage it right from WordPress.com.
Over 25% of the web runs on WordPress. WordPress.com is home to everyone from brand-new bloggers to Time, CNN, TechCrunch, and more.
Choose from hundreds of customizable themes, with new additions weekly.
Create a mobile-friendly site with a click, or choose from a wide selection of responsive themes that look great everywhere.
Get friendly, expert help — our team of Happiness Engineers is standing by.
Support is available 24-7 via email and our community forums. For folks with an upgraded plan, Happiness Engineers are available via live chat for real-time assistance.
Wordpress's editor is fast, intuitive, and saves your work every few seconds, so you never miss a word.
Drag-and-drop images into posts and pages. Create designer-worthy photo galleries. Embed audio, video, and more.
Update your site from anywhere with mobile and desktop apps for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux systems.
Whatever you create on WordPress.com is yours alone. Export your content at any time
Automatically send new posts to Twitter, Facebook, and more, and add social tools to help readers share their favorites.
Make it easy for new fans to find you with built-in SEO. All you have to do is publish.
Learn more about your visitors — where they’re from, what they read, when they visit — with rich, easy-to-read stats.
But In my opinion blogger is better than wordpress. So I would prefer blogger to wordpress because of its easy interface and so much popularity.
3. How to create / start a blog ?
Its very easy to start a blog using blogger. All you need is a gmail account. Here are the steps to create your first blog. You can watch a video too!
(1). Create a Gmail account first and build your profile. (2). Now go to https://www.blogger.com and sign in to your account. (3). After signing in you will see below page.
(4). Click New blog to create blog,when you click it a popup window will open as shown below.
(5). Now give a title to your blog which will be the name of your blog, and select a url or web link for it. Sometimes your desired urls are not available. Take care of having a title similar to blog's url as it will be helpful for seo( search engine optimization). For example your blog's title is 101Helper then select a similar link as I selected https://www.101helper.blogspot.com
(6). Below the Address option you can see Template which means how your blog will look? there are many templates such as simple, Dynamic, picture windows, Awesome inc, Travel etc. Select one of them which you like, I prefer simple as it looks good.
(7). After filling and selecting your choices click Create blog! Congratulations! your blog is created and ready to use.
4. How to build audience for my blog ?
This is the hard part of blogging because no matter how useful your content is, how meaningful posts are you writing, how better are your writing skills, you can't build a big audience is a day or in a month because it may take a month, 6 months or a whole year. Because building audience doesn't entirely depend on your content because even if you have golden content in your blog you can never get big audience until your posts are social, bookmarked, indexed in search engine results.
So to get a big audience you need to do following things.
- Social audience
To build social audience you need a platform so create a Facebook page, Twitter profile, Google+ page and other social profile if you need them.
After creating your profiles on social networks, share every post of your blog on your social profiles and ask your visitors to like your page, follow you on twitter or Google+ or Pinterest.
You can use gadgets for this, here are some which can bring you followers which really want to read your blog posts.
For more follow buttons, follow boxes you can search 101Helper!
- Webmaster tools
Webmaster tools are really really important to build a big audience because it is the way by which you tell search engines to send there robots to your blog, scan your site, get your post titles, description, images and links and show them in the search results when a proper keyword is searched by someone.
Here is a picture which will tell you what actually webmaster tools are.
So after creating your blog your first step should be submitting your blog's sitemap to all webmaster tools e.g Google, Bing and Yandex.
After submitting your site to webmaster tools you need to optmize your posts and blog for search engines. Get a seo friendly template for your blog and install it or read out search engine optimizations tutorials to make your blog ready for search engines.
Growing your email subscribers list can increase your blog's traffic and also promotes your blog. So you should have a feed burner's feed for your site or you can use MailChimp for your blog and send your subscribers emails about your new posts. Here are some posts that I want you to read for email audience.
Well most of blogger start blogging just to earn money but I recommend not to add a single ad in your blog until you have at least 150 page views per day because if you have less traffic but still you have ads on your blog, you will not earn good and this will decrease your interest in blogging and at a time you will quite blogging because you will start thinking its a waste of time. So I advice you not to add ads in your blog until you get 150 page views per day.
And after having atleast 150 page views per day you can start earning money from your blog. But the point is "Traffic is money" so never place pop up ads because people never visit a blog which have so many pop up ads. You can install interstitial ads and slider ads etc.
Every blogger has a question when he is having success in blogging that "should I upgrade to a domain ?" because most of bloggers think that after upgrading to a domain you can get more traffic and earn more money but this is a wrong concept so the answer is obvious that if your blog is doing well don't upgrade and if you are going to upgrade then start from a domain, don't start blog because the time that you spent on your blog is wasted when you upgrade to domain because you have backlinks from other blogs and social networks and all these are not wasted but they are not of that value that would be when you have a blog not domain.
So in my opinion I advice you to avoid upgrading. But if you still want to upgrade to a domain, follow any of the tutorial on other blogs.
I hope you like this post and you found what you came for. If you have any problem or something is missing in this post you can share it with me in comments below or by contacting me.
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RSS feed is a source of latest posts in a blog or website. It contains a bunch of text with some summery from a post, its title, category, publish date etc. RSS feeds are required sometimes for some gadgets like recent post widget and sometimes it is need to submit RSS feed to certain websites which index your blog or site post on there site or promote your site's post so they require a link to your site to get all the latest info from your site once otherwise it will take a lot of time to index posts. Other uses of RSS feed is in submitting posts to Google or Bing via Webmaster tools.
So here is a quick guide to get Feed URLs for a blogger blog.
Atom 1.0: http://[blogname].blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default RSS 2.0: http://[blogname].blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss FULL SITE COMMENTS-ONLY FEED:
Atom 1.0: http://[blogname].blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default RSS 2.0: http://[blogname].blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss
LABEL-SPECIFIC SITE FEED:
Atom 1.0: http://[blogname].blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/Label name here
RSS 2.0: http://[blogname].blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/Label name here?alt=rss
INDIVIDUAL POST COMMENT FEED:
Atom 1.0: http://[blogname].blogspot.com/feeds/<postId>/comments/default RSS 2.0: http://[blogname].blogspot.com/feeds/postId/comments/default?alt=rss
The same feed URLS are true for custom domains so if you have upgraded to a custom domain you can use your custom domain URL in place of [blogname].blogspot.com
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The title of a site or blog is given at the time of creation and is recommended to be 100% seo friendly because it play a major role in getting organic traffic from search engines. So a title should contain the most relevant keywords to generate a high traffic. Similar to it description is also very important because search engines show results on the basis of description. So its very important to give a seo friendly title and description to a blog. But as beginner to blogging most of the people do it wrong because they are unaware of seo. However if they want to change title or description of their blogs they can do it is seconds. Because blogger lets its users to do so. So this post is about changing the title and description of a blogger blog. If you want to change your blog's title and description then follow below steps: How To Change Title And Description In Blogger?
Step 1: Go to blogger and log-in to your blogger account.
Step 2: Go to settings > Basic:
Step 3: Click on Edit to edit title or description and after making changes click on Save Changes:
That's it you are done successfully. Make sure to add meta description and title in your blog's template. Don't miss Seo Posts to generate a high traffic for your blog!
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You might have noticed that in most of blogs these is a small description of a post and after that there is a "Read More" button to read full post. This read more button is addedbecause of Jump Break. If a post have no jump break your blog will show full post and it may slow down your homepage and other pages. But it happens only in simple templates, if you are using a custom template you may don't encounter this problem. All though "Read More"button has no effect on seo but it can help you speed up your blog. You can add this to your posts very easily, there is no need to touch code. It is done when you have completed your post. Also Read:How To Customize Read More Link/Button In Blogger In this post I will show you how to add "Read More" in posts by using jump break. So follow below steps: Step 1: Go to blogger dashboard and write a new post or edit an existing one which doesn't have read more button.
Step 2: Choose the location or area of post which you want to show before "Read More"button or find the position where you want to place jump break.
Step 3: Click after that area which you have chosen to show and click on Insert jump break button as shown in below image:
Step 4: Click on publish and open your homepage to see changes.
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Comment moderation means publishing comments after approval. It is helpful to avoid spam comments to be published on blog. Comment moderation is not enabled in simple or another template so you have enable it on your own. Its not a difficult thing, you have to just make a little changes in settings of your blog. To enable comment moderation in your blog follow below steps:
Step 1: Go to blogger dashboard. Step 2: Select settings in the menu on left side. Step 3: Select the sub-option "post and comments". Step 4: Search for comments option on the page and below it search for comment moderation. Step 5: Check always option beside comment moderation and click on save settings. For instance see the below image:
Comments awaiting for approval will show up in the overview chart of your blog. Comments will be published after approval by Admin:
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Navbar means navigation bar. It lies at the top of blog in blogger. It has a search box, share buttons and some more buttons. It is enabled in every blogger template but can be disabled easily by Admin. It has different styles e.g black, orange, blue, transparent etc. In this post I will tell you how to disable navbar in blogger, so follow below steps to disable navbar in blogger:
Step 1: Go to blogger dashboard. Step 2: Click on Layout in the menu on left side:
Step 3: At the top of the layout page Edit the navbar:
Step 4: Check the round box beside off to disable navbar.
Step 5: Click on save button and you are done! If you wish to enable it again go to Dashboard > Layout > Navbar > Edit and choose any of the navbar style which you like and click on save. If you have any question ask me in comments. Share this post with others. Follow and subscribe to get instant updates about blogging tutorials.
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